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C: Uh-huh (affirmative) Science was hard. It was the hardest subject there.

B: Uh-huh, well, you know, girls don't usually take to science as well as boys

for some reason, it seems. Uh, what's your best subject?

C: Oh, I think jmlu 0Lm in school, but I'd rather learn more about science,

but I'm not good in it.

B: Uh-huh, you think you just need more help in that particular area?

C: Um-hum, yes I do.

B: What kind of sports do you go for?

C: Soccer, basketball, and baseball. L'ofe bii/ il

B: Uh-huh, anything else?

C: Sports? Oh, swimming, track, I think that's about all.

B: Um-hum, and, uh, is there one of these that you enjoy more than any other?
C: Yes, that's horseback riding, but 'm'm, uh, I mean, 'm
C: Yes, 11gfe"tainl that's horseback riding, but I'm I'm, uh, I mean, I'm

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hard for me to ride a horse, but that's what I want for Christmas.

B: Uh, you want to learn to do horseback riding better? Uh, what sort of got

you girls off on horseback riding? Uh, was this, uh, your brother's horse

and seeing him ride, did this, uh, help you to get interested in horseback

riding do you think?

C: I always thought a horse was pretty. I love horses. I just wish I could

have one.

B: Uh, do you love any other animals?

C: A dog.

B: Dogs, uh-huh. And, by the way, since we've heard this horse mentioned

several times, what is the horses name? R/ 6 DL t "fL'a.w -j /'

C: Oh, she's dead now, but it was Jane. She was tame, but he got another one.

It was a pony then-- ka pony, sort of small and large, but he's got a

horse now, and it's wild.

B: Uh, you can't ride the horse he has now?

C: Nobody can--he can't even ride it hisself.

B: Oh boy, what is he going to do about that problem?

C: He rides it inma way. He runs wild with the horse too.

B: Uh, does he ever get thrown?

C: I reckon he do. He gets skinned up.

B: (Laughs) You never did tell me the horse's name, though.

C: (Laughs) I said Jane.

B: The wild one is named Jane?

C: No. (Laughs)'

B: You told me the dead horse was named Jane, I think. Right? And what's this

one's name, or it--have you bothered to learn yet, since he's so wild?

C: Uh, I never paid it, uh, I never paid that horse no attention. I never go

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B: (Laughs) Uh, so you think, uh, Harold and his horse A two of a kind?

C: Yeah.

B: You say he sort of runs wild with the horse.

C: (Laughs) Yes, he is.

B: And what happens when he gets thrown off and getYskinned up and stuff like

that? Does he go right back and crawl on again?

C: No, he just wipes the blood off and Ies back on the horse--(laughs)--start

running away.

B: Oh, my. I don't know. I, uh, was just about the notion that l'id like to

do some horseback riding, but, uh, since you don't have Jane around any

longer, I don't think I want to try a wild A v v I mean, it is all..

if Harold's having that kind of problems. I assume it is a girl horse, is

it not?

C: No, it's a stud.

B: Oh, well, no wonder. I think studs are a little bit wilder than the girl'

horses. I don't know quite whether that's a prejudice or not, or whether

it is true or not, but it's--I seem to have heard this somewhere. You and

this, u --no, you don't sound stupid--you and this, uh, high temper

yours--do you have any racial trouble because of this?

C: No, not racial, but, um, when you're coming down to business, now, I mean

really making me mad, that's when it comes to racial.

B: What is it that makes you mad so easily, or more easily than anything else,